Tag Archives: scenic nature

Since my last post was about the Pasadena wind storm damage, I figured that I’d follow it up with a rain storm photo of Red Rock Canyon from last month. It obviously doesn’t rain very much in Las Vegas but somehow it has rained the last two times that I have been there. As a …

I visited my first slot canyon at Valley of Fire State Park and was completely fascinated. This slot canyon looked completely different from the Antelope Canyon slots in Northern Arizona, that has become so cliche in landscape photography. This is certainly not the type of landscape you would want to be in during a flash …

Everywhere you go, sandstone has a seemingly limitless amount of patterns to photograph. It also looks completely different at various times in the day depending on the lighting conditions. I liked the leading lines in this piece of sandstone. See more of my Las Vegas photos.

My friend, David Leland Hyde, recently worked on this short video about his father, Philip Hyde, that is worth watching and sharing. Philip Hyde from LumiÃ¨re on Vimeo. Philip Hyde was essentially the photographer that spurred the modern environmental movement through his work with the Sierra Club starting in the 1950’s. More so than even …

Valley of Fire State Park totally blew me away. The scenery here rivals that of any national park that I’ve been to. I’m glad it isn’t a national park because that would just mean more tourists to ruin the experience. The cool thing is that it is only an hour from Las Vegas. Windstone Arch …

We spent our last afternoon in Yosemite at Mirror Lake and it was perhaps the perfect way to wrap up the trip. Though I had been to Mirror Lake several times in the past, this is the first time I had seen a significant amount of water there so it was nice to take in …

Some of the best fall color in Yosemite was on Southside Drive just past El Capitan Meadow. I had gone to the Eastern Sierra to photograph fall foliage on several occasions previously so it was a nice to change things up by photographing the fall color in Yosemite instead this year. See more of my …

I was watching a photo processing tutorial recently by a popular online photographer, where he was making statements about how straight photography is boring and HDR (multi-image exposure composites) is more eye-catching. The beauty of the internet is that anyone can have an opinion and be an expert, no matter how ill-informed or absurd. I’d …

My mom had never been up to the Tioga Pass and I had only driven through once before so we spent most of our third day stopping everywhere shooting pictures. I remembered Siesta Lake from my first visit in 2004 so I had always wanted to revisit and try some oil painting-like water reflections. It …

I didn’t really have any clouds to work with but with a nightly show of alpenglow on Half Dome, who needs clouds? I messed up this shoot as I accidentally had the camera set on ISO 1600 until my final few frames. The file looks pretty good still at 100% though so I’m keeping it. …